[mythtv-users] System all but hangs when viewing channel guide

[Aaron Klein]

Yes I ment frontend.  I misspoke because the two myth systems I have
are both front and backends.  The issue Im having is on the secondary
backend system.

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Brad DerManouelian
<myth at dermanouelian.com> wrote:
> On Sep 9, 2008, at 7:08 AM, Aaron Klein wrote:
>
>> One of my backends is suffering from an issue when I am watching
>> LiveTV and select the Guide after a few seconds the system nearly
>> hangs.  It takes several seconds to respond to key strokes and will
>> eventually let me get out of the guide.  I don't understand why this
>> is going on as the backend I would have though would have been
>> powerful enough.  The backend is a P4 2.4Ghz with 1.5Gigs ram.  The
>> encoder is a PVR-1600 and this occurs when viewing analog TV so the TV
>> is putting nearly no load given that the card has a hardware mpeg
>> encoder.  I have a second backend that is a Hyperthreaded P4 2.4Ghz
>> that does not suffer from this issue.  I have tried various guide
>> display settings from Transparent to Eco and none seem to help.
>
> I assume you mean a frontend since backends don't play back content,
> they just record. :)
> Are you using Bob (or some other double frame-rate) deinterlacer?
> There's a bug that was recently fixed for that.
>
> The other likely suspect is missing channel icons on that frontend,
> but I'm not sure if that's actually a problem any more.
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